More than 30,000 car dealers in mainland China are facing another bleak year in 2025, with many turning from profit-generators into corporate failures in two years under a debilitating price war ...

Yan Ge now writes in English, but she's still telling stories of rural China in her Sichuan dialect Sichuan-born novelist Yan Ge ... Upon struggling to compose a solicited submission for an Irish ...

China held its most important economic policy meeting of the year recently amid a burst of confidence that the Communist Party leadership is about to take the most decisive action in more than a ...

The UK is starting to lag behind the defence spending in Russia, Iran and China, research shows. Britain has endured more than a decade of under-investment in defence, having increased its defence ...

The UK is starting to lag behind the defence spending in Russia, Iran and China, research shows. Britain has endured more than a decade of under-investment in defence, having increased its defence ...

Russia has increased defence spending by 34% – taking its total to $109bn in 2025, which is 5.9% of its GDP – Iran by 57% and China 60% over the last 10 years. The biggest increase in defence ...